Improvement in adjustable metallic cornice-brackets



A. T. PERKINS & N. WATERMAN.

Imprqvement in Adjustable Metallic Cornice Bracke ts'.

Patented March 5, I872.

WITNESSES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED T. PERKINS AND NEHEMIAH \VATERMAN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE METALLIC CORNICE-BRACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,352, dated March 5, 1872.

Specification of an Improved Metallic Cornice-Bracket, invented by ALFRED T. PER- KINS and NEHEMIAH WATERMAN, both of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio.

The invention consists of a metallic frame with arrangements for adjustment to bring it in line, and attachable, by through-rods and spurs, to the wall in the course of building. Braces enter into the structure of the bracket to prevent sagging.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the bracket attached to a wall, and supporting a gutter. Fig. 2 is a view of a cornice-bracket with some details of construction difl'ering from Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View of a detached bracket of modified construction.

A is a portion of a wall. B B are the horizontal plates of the cornice-bracket, embedded for a portion of their length in the wall, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and upheld thereby. In the formerfigure an extension downward of the back-plate U, and a spur, 0, built into the wall a few courses below the plate B, gives additional security to the bracket. E, in each of the figures, shows a vertical plate or web between the plates B B. D I), in the several figures, are diagonal braces to maintain the integrity of the form of the cornice when the weight of the guttering and of accumulated snow is placed thereon. bolt, by which the outer member G of the cornice is raised or lowered so as to bring it exactly in line, and an even fall in the length of the guttering is obtained. In Fig. l the bolt F is shown as extended between two diagonal members of the cornice. In Fig. 2 it is a double bolt, right-and-left threaded, and extending between dependent lugs from the re- F is a set-screw or spective portions B and the upper plate of G. In Fig. 3 the adjustability is given by shiftin g the halved plate g in or out beneath the bolt h, and screwing it fast at the point of adjustment; or by making slots at n in the plate B at the points of contact of the diagonal braces, so that the outer end may be set up or down and then secured by screwing the set-bolts firmly. H is a gutter-plate, laid upon the cornice, its hollow or water-way occupying the space between the outer member G and the plate B of the main portion of the cornicebracket. I is an angle-brace beneath the cornice, and serving to strengthen the same. The

bracket is to be made of iron. J is the cornice plate, preferably of galvanized iron.

Claims.

We claim as our invention- 1. A bracket with an outer adjustable member, G, which maybe regulated to bringthe cornice into line.

2. The bracket having through-rods or bars B B, to be embedded in the walls, and diagonal braces D in the projecting portion, to maintain the shape, substantially as described.

3. A bracket having screw'bolts F or slots at and bolts h, to set up one part relatively to another, for the purpose described.

4. The combination of the bracket-frame B B O G and the diagonal braces D D, substant-ially as described.

ALFRED T. PERKINS. XEHEMIAH \VATERMAN.

\Yitnesses:

RALPH OSBORN, OHAs. F. ADAMS. 

